Posted on 09/25/2013 6:10:34 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Come January 2017, if you see Ted Cruz taking the presidential oath of office, you’ll largely have the Republican Party establishment that hates him to thank for it.
Whether they’re calling his efforts to defund Obamacare a “fraud,” sending Fox News personalities’ opposition research to use against him, or simply claiming to “f——— hate” him, the sophomoric and treacherous behavior by the GOP establishment has helped elevate the junior Texas senator from a “wacko bird” beloved by the base to a force of nature capable of something no movement conservative has done since Ronald Reagan.
Not since Reagan has a nonestablishment presidential candidate had the comprehensive worldview and charisma capable of coalescing enough of the conservative/libertarian base to defeat the Republican ruling class in a national primary. As a result, the grass roots has often been splintered, allowing the establishment candidate (John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012) to win a plurality of fractured support to secure the nomination.
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To the headline: praise God Almighty
I think Mr. Cruz made a point, but we still do not have a competing Healthcare plan.
Without a competing Healthcare plan, we have no competing Healthcare plan.
Just saying.
He’s got my vote
Ted is well aware of what is coming.
He is doing all this with his eyes wide open.
Add Senator John Boozman to the list of people who are knifing Cruz.
He apparently had an explosion behind the scenes and called Cruz a bully. This man is another RINO snake.
As in two reams of bureaucratic tyranny?
The only plan the govt should have is to stay out of the way.
Why do we “NEED” a health care plan?
I have a perfectly good one that pays for our health care past a certain monetary amount each year? It’s been this way for years.
1.) Get RID of 0SocializedCare
2.) Allow insurance policy purchases across state lines
3.) Cut out existing regulations
I'm sure they covered more of *the competing plan*, but my eyes rolled shut at 3 a.m., and I missed some of it.
Why do we need one?
Our health care was AOK before.
Just say NO, why cave to the premise that the dems have a real issue.
JUST SAY NO!!!
Scott Brown was too. And I recall when Karl Rove was a magnificent Bastard.
Not saying Cruz couldn’t do it...but it’s a long road.
But there is a Republican healthcare plan. Just go to gop.gov
Ted Cruz is the de facto leader of the Conservatives.
Will you listen to yourself??? Do you even understand how far left the very premise of your statement was?
I believe they were also keen on HSA’s which would go a long way to eliminating fraud.
Where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that the government should provide a health care plan? Why try to out-freebie the Socialist Democrats, who use other people’s money to buy votes with a boatload of freebies for the Taker class?
Yes, HSA’s...and I thought I was dreaming that ;)
I am in fundamental disagreement with many on this board.
I do not believe we should allow free reign in healthcare costs.
We pay MUCH TOO MUCH for healthcare. That is why we ended up with socialism.
I do not like socialism, but I also do not like paying too much for healthcare.
So far, those are the two options.
Paying too much. Or socialism.
Sorry but that choice is the pits.
GOP I was all for your fight, but if we’re going to challenge the healthcare plan, let’s have a better one.
America’s healthcare is far, far too expensive.
Best plan I ever had was an HSA that had 80/20 catastrophic coverage should the HSA become depleted.
Sadly it is no longer offered.
No matter what happens, I will support Cruz if he runs for the Republican contender for the Presidency and, to the best of my limited ability, any other true conservative who challenges a RINO in this effort to defund ObamaCare.
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